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There are, mercifully, other ways for would-be entrepreneurs to raise money
apart from being humiliated and patronised for 12 weeks on The Apprentice.
As Joseph Valente, a 25-year-old plumber from Peterborough, secured the
promise of £250,000 of start-up capital from Lord Sugar, another company was
demonstrating the power of a completely different method of raising capital.

The Camden Town Brewery, launched from underneath a couple of railway arches
in north London five years ago, announced that it was being taken over by AB
InBev, the world’s biggest brewer, the group behind Stella Artois, Budweiser
and Becks.